Cossack vs Jlb - What's the difference?
cossack | jlb |
A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste) and the Soviet Union, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
(sports, moguls freestyle skiing) "cossack—iron cross—cossack" – an acrobatic maneuver in moguls skiing, whereby taking a ski jump off a kicker, the skier performs a sequence of three acrobatic maneuvers, starting with a cossack, followed by an iron cross, and ending with a cossack, before landing on course again.